Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for November 26, 2014

Wait til Gordon finds out they are all out of toothpics at the Ballard Super Saver and Kayak Market. And he also doesn’t know that Rex the Roamin’ Dog is on the loose. I see Trouble, don’t you?

Reason # 45 not to get drunk at a Frat Party.

I came across this in the back of the sock drawer: Susan, me, Bev, Dry and Stel, taken a looooong time ago!

Gordon!

Don’t be sorry….. it’s beautiful!Keep going… dream big!

In fact, one of my very favorite things, really, is a huge kinetic sculpture of San Francisco made out of over 100,000 toothpicks.

It was displayed at our county fair, and returned for another run two years later.I was fascinated, so I’ve talked at length with its creator, Scott Weaver…

He’s not an artist by profession, but a local supermarket produce manager, and he’s been working on this for over 35 years!

Here’s Scott with “Rolling Through San Francisco” ,,, so called cos he drops ping pong balls into a couple of different chutes, and they roll through the streets…. past replicas of famous landmarks and personal ones, like his grandmother’s house, made of toothpicks from all over the world.

OK, I found a video where he explains a lot of it…

BTW,,, while there are many kinds of toothpicks in his sculpture, he only uses one kind of glue… brand name Elmer’s Glue.

2Old… aaahhh…. so long ago…when we were young and innocent…So long ago I don;t even…. quite… um…. remember it….

Gordon’s next project…A toothpick particle accelerator.

Susan (And Gordon), those toothpick sculptures are so cool!!!

X … you must warn people to always wear safety goggles when accellerating toothpicks!

Hi Ladykat!You must be up awfully early!Nearly 2AM here… I’ll be going to bed soon.

But I want to wish you a belated “Happy Birthday!”

I didn’t know in time… :(

Good morning Balladears. :) Peace.A ‘safe’ holiday to all.

Perhaps Gordon should have started a bit smaller…(Pencil carved from a toothpick)

@SusanSunshine – great video!

It will just over shadow the magnificent hut he just built over to the right of the duomo.

Angry woman harasses my son today during one of his surveys. I noticed on the same channel she also harassed a city bus driver. Difficult to concentrate on work with someone shouting.

It’s funny, but I found a toothpick on my floor this morning and I wondered how it got there.Now I know. Gordon, watch those tooth picks, will you?

I think Gordon is very talented. I’ll bet he could make a fortress out of the tooth pick boxes!

X_TECH< what is the last words in that video? All I heard was, “I think we just discovered plates!”

Sorry, I am too tired, and I do know that it should be What ARE the etc….

Good night.

Good Night Happy. Thank you for the music.Have a sweet dream night and a Happy Thanksgiving.